Six years after the Great Recession, we're finally back to (drumroll, please): Exactly where we started.
Six years after the Great Recession, we're finally back to (drumroll, please): Exactly where we started.
There were 138.4 million jobs in 2008, when the economy first hit the doldrums. Thanks to the 217,000 nonfarm payroll jobs U.S. employers added in May, 138.5 million Americans are now employed. Too bad there are now an additional 7 million U.S. workers in the labor pool.